David Gemmell

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1971
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Drenai Tales

1 - Legend (Oct-1994)
2 - The King Beyond the Gate (Jan-1985)
3 - Quest for Lost Heroes (1990)
5 - In the Realm of the Wolf // Waylander II (1992)
7 - The Legend of Deathwalker (Feb-1997)
8 - Winter Warriors (Jun-1998)
9 - Hero in the Shadows (Mar-2000)
10 - White Wolf: A Novel of Druss the Legend (Apr-2003)
11 - The Swords of Night and Day (Mar-2004)
Legends of the Drena (Oct-1995)
Druss the Legend (Oct-1998)

The Hawk Queen

1 - Ironhand's Daughter (1995)
2 - The Hawk Eternal (1999)

Legend Trilogy

2 - Waylander (Jul-1988)

Rigante

1 - Sword in the Storm (Aug-1999)
2 - Midnight Falcon (Mar-1971)
3 - Ravenheart (Jul-2001)
4 - Stormrider (Apr-2002)

Stones of Power

1 - Ghost King (1988)
2 - Last Sword of Power (Aug-1996)
3 - The Jerusalem Man // Wolf in Shadow (1987)
4 - Last Guardian (1989)

Troy

1 - Lord of the Silver Bow (Sep-2005)
2 - Shield of Thunder (Nov-2006)
3 - Fall of Kings (Nov-2007)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Midnight Falcon

    Rigante - 2

    Bane the Bastard is the illegitimate son of the Rigante king who men called Demonblade. Born of treachery, Bane grew up an outcast in his own land, feared by his fellow highlanders, and denied by the father whose unmistakable mark he bore--the eyes ...

  • The King Beyond the Gate

    Drenai Tales - 2

    Times had changed. Once the mighty fortress had stood strong, defended by the mightiest of all Drenai heroes, Druss, the Legend. But now a tyrannical, mad emperor had seized control of the fortress. And his twisted will was carried throughout t...

  • The Jerusalem Man // Wolf in Shadow

    Stones of Power - 3

    TRAIL OF BLOOD Jon Shannow, The Jerusalem Man, lived in a world that had toppled on its axis. Civilization had been re-placed by ruthlessness and savagery. Relentless in his quest for peace, Shannow followed a path that led only to bloodshed and s...

  • Ghost King

    Stones of Power - 1

    Chaos and terror stalked the realm. The king had been slain by traitors, and the Sword of Power had been lost beyond the Circle of Mist. Armies of Saxons, Angles, Jutes, and Brigantes cut a gory swath across the land, led by puppets of the ruthless W...

  • Waylander

    Legend Trilogy - 2

    All of Waylander's instincts had screamed at him to spurn the contract from Kaem the cruel, the killer of nations. But he had ignored them. He had made his kill. And even as he went to collect his gold, he knew that he had been betrayed. Now the D...

  • Last Guardian

    Stones of Power - 4

    While the earth quaked, a deadly power burst forth from ancient Atlantis. For the gate of time had been torn open, freeing a cataclysmic evil. Only the last guardian, Jon Shannow, the legendary pistoleer, could shut the deadly portal. But to accom...

  • Quest for Lost Heroes

    Drenai Tales - 3

    The Drenai stronghold had fallen. Now blood-hungry Nadir hordes spread desolation and despair across all the lands ...even tiny Gothir, where slavers seized a young girl while the villagers looked the other way--all but the peasant boy Kiall. His ...

  • In the Realm of the Wolf // Waylander II

    Drenai Tales - 5

    Enter the extraordinary action-filled saga that began with Legend--as the exciting Drenai adventure continues to unfold... A mighty warrior and a feared assassin among the Drenai, Waylander the Slayer is now a man hunted by his own people--with a ...

  • Lion of Macedon

    The aged seeress Tamis has divined all the possible tomorrows. In every one, evil forces threaten Greece. The future holds only one hope: a half-caste Spartan boy, Parmenion. So Tamis makes it her mission to see that Parmenion becomes the deadliest w...



  • Dark Prince

    The chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by ev...

  • Knights of Dark Renown

    Once the legendary knights of the Gabala defended the nine duchies. Their hearts were beautiful; their armor was beyond compare. They were greater than princes, more than men.But they were gone, disappeared through a demon-haunted gateway between wor...

  • Morningstar

    The Angostin hordes raged over the Southern Borders. Evil sorcery ruled, and the vampyre kings lived once more. The Highland people were in much need of a great hero. Jarek Mace needed nothing and no one--not even that bard Owen Odell, with whom h...

  • Legend

    Drenai Tales - 1

    Druss, Captain of the Axe, was the stuff of legends--tales of the mighty warrior were told throughout the land. But even as the stories grew in the telling, Druss himself got older. Finally, he turned his back on glory to retreat to a mountain lair h...

  • Ironhand's Daughter

    The Hawk Queen - 1

    The armies of the Outlanders crushed the highlanders at the battle of Golden Moor--killing their finest warriors and breaking their freeborn spirit. The highlanders are now a conquered people, ruled by the brutal Baron Gottasson. But prophecies sp...

  • Legends of the Drena

    Drenai Tales

  • Dark Moon

    One awesome night, the sadistic, seemingly invincible Daroth vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their cities, their armies, their reigns of terror. Not a trace of this conquering race remained. Until a thousand years later... . With th...

  • Last Sword of Power

    Stones of Power - 2

    BLOOD KING T he Goths followed a bloodthirsty new leader, one who sought to open the Gates of Hell: Wotan. His immortal power stemmed from human sacrifice and dark sorcery, and no sword could touch him. He rode the winds on a leather-winged steed,...

  • Echoes of the Great Song

    The Avatars are immortal and live like kings--even though the empire is dying. Their immortality is guaranteed by magic crystals whose influence is now waning, overwhelmed by the sheer power of a great flood and a sudden ice age. But when two moons a...

  • The Legend of Deathwalker

    Drenai Tales - 7

    Enter a powerful realm of legend, dark sorcery, and conquest, where the mighty Drenai warrior Druss faces his most deadly opponent . . .Druss the Legend, the dark axman known as the Deathwalker, must join the warrior Talisman on a mission of blood an...



  • Bloodstone

    “David Gemmell tells a tale of very real adventure, the stuff of true epic fantasy.” -- R. A. Salvatore, New York Times bestselling authorTwenty years have passed since Jon Shannow, the legendary Jerusalem Man, cracked open the gate of time and b...

  • The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend

    He was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his veins, he had found a fragile peace through his love for beautiful, mystical Rowena. Then came the day when Druss returned to their village and found e...

  • Winter Warriors

    Drenai Tales - 8

    Winged demons gather, silent and unseen, above the city of Usa, their talons long and sharp. Their purpose is clear, as is the prophesy: Upon the deaths of the three kings, the demon riders of the Krayakin will become flesh, free to slake their thirs...

  • Druss the Legend

    Drenai Tales

    RETURN OF THE DEATHWALKER

    From the timeless, magical, and merciless Drenai realm--evoked so unforgettably in David Gemmell's international bestseller Legend--comes a new tale of power and passion, of a man born to kill, and destined for greatn...

  • The Hawk Eternal

    The Hawk Queen - 2

    While the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gate...

  • Sword in the Storm

    Rigante - 1

    Fierce and proud, the Rigante dwell deep in the green mountain lands, worshiping the gods of air and water, and the spirits of the earth. Among them lives a warrior who bears the mark of fate. Born of the storm that slew his father, he is Connavar, a...

  • Hero in the Shadows

    Drenai Tales - 9

    The ruined city of Kuan Hador reeks of dark mystery. Shunned by brigands and commonfolk alike, it is home to fearsome wild creatures and tales that freeze the blood. Legends speak of slavering beasts, who are locked behind a powerful wall of spells a...

  • Ravenheart

    Rigante - 3

    Eight hundred years have passed since King Connavar of the Rigante and his bastard son, Bane, defeated the invading army of Stone. Now the Rigantc have lost the freedom and culture so many gave their lives to preserve. Only one woman remains who foll...

  • Stormrider

    Rigante - 4

    One glorious spark, one moment of Rigante rebellion has ignited a revolution and forged a legend. In the mountains of the north, the outlaw leader known as Ravenheart waits, knowing the forces of the blackhearted Moidart will come, led by the brutal ...

  • White Wolf: A Novel of Druss the Legend

    Drenai Tales - 10

    The blood-drenched lands of the Drenai are protected by a man who has been hated and feared as much as he has been loved: the living legend known as Druss, Captain of the Ax. But this is also the land of Skilgannon, a man who is armed with the mythic...



  • White Wolf

  • The Swords of Night and Day

    Drenai Tales - 11

    Throughout the war-torn lands of Drenai, men and women live in fear of the Joinings, abominable meldings of man and beast, and of their mistress, the sorceress known as the Eternal. The Drenai's only hope may lie with a warrior long dead. For years L...

  • Lord of the Silver Bow

    Troy - 1

    He is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of the Silver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is Helikaon. Strong, fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared e...

  • Shield of Thunder

    Troy - 2

    The Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell brings the myth and legend of Troy to life in this epic story filled with triumph and tragedy. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. "This is how the oldest tales sh...

  • Fall of Kings

    Troy - 3

    High adventure and epic storytelling combine in the final novel in Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell's bestselling Troy trilogy. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. 'In my pantheon of literary greats, Da...

  • Stones of Power

    Rebellion and invasion plunge Britannia into the Dark Ages. Chaos and terror stalk the land, the King slain by traitors, the great Sword of Power vanished beyond the Circle of Mist.

    Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Brigante tribesman mass togeth...

  • White Knight/Black Swan

    David Gemmell was the UK's number one fantasy and historical novelist until his death in 2006. A regular Sunday Times bestseller, and international sensation, his legacy lives on through his novels, his influence on the genre, and through the David G...

  • Rhyming Rings

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Gemmell has published 37 books.

David Gemmell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Rhyming Rings, was published in September 2021.

The first book by David Gemmell, Midnight Falcon, was published in March 1971.

Yes. David Gemmell has 6 series.
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